Toyota's Gazoo Racing Is Developing a Standalone Sports Car

Toyota's Gazoo Racing division makes sporty trim levels for JDM models like the Prius Prime and Yaris. Now, Gazoo is planning on developing a standalone sports car model. And , it could eventually make its way to the US as a TRD-branded offering.

If you're unfamiliar, Gazoo is Toyota's racing division, responsible for the company's numerous motorsport programs and concepts like the very cool S-FR racer (pictured above). Shigeki Tomoyama, president of Gazoo Racing, revealed the division's plans for a new sports car at the debut of the GR trim line last week.

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"We are taking the challenge of adopting new tastes created in this process to stock cars as much as possible," Tomoyama told Automotive News. "In its next phase, we will get a designated sports car platform and eventually—finally—we want to introduce a pure, genuine sports car, which can compete against top-class world competitors."

Whether this car will slot above or below the upcoming Supra in Toyota's growing performance lineup, we don't know, nor do we know how a Gazoo model would compare to the current Toyota 86. Hopefully next month's Tokyo Auto Show will give us some answers.